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Unless your PC is a potato you saved from the scrapyard, running both browsers simultaneously is quite feasible. I use Chrome only for work-related stuff because it's the Internet Explorer 6 of the roaring twenties—all of the stupid tools from work break in Firefox.

Like a dummy I had put all my passwords in chrome and I was locked in. This morning I had enough so I exported my password and moved them to a keepass. I already had syncthing running on my laptop, computer at home and phone to shard the database. I replaced the chrome icon on my phone with a firefox one and even re-added cohost to my phone through firefox.

I'm doing my part

This post is motivating me to start making web applications in firefox purely just so it can also work in chrome.

Would this work with safari too?

I wonder which level of monopoly they're waiting to get to until Google makes it fully impossible to use adblockers on Chrome

they said preemptively that they don't think they should have to change anything, and then deleted the whole post while i was writing a comment to tell them i had already worked out how to fix their website and it wasn't very hard

We actually just discussed the zoom property last week in our meeting: https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/5623

Fun fact: zoom does do something useful, but it's still pretty fucked up, and we inherited it from the pre-fork WebKit days, where it had to be implemented for IE6 compatibility.

Unfun fact: it's likely impossible for Moz to implement zoom unless they simultaneously remove support for -moz-transform, for Stupid Compat Reasons.

We're back in the IE6 era, welcome to hell

there will be ublock origin on firefox plus maybe new ones that will send dummy data to those sites to make them work then ublock will empty the screen of the ad for your viewing pleasure, they can work hard - but there are more of us programming than them

I had a bit of a panic because I was unable to log into my bank the other day. “Service unavailable”. I call the hotline and they tell me the service is up. Eventually they ask what browser I’m on, and guess what? My fucking bank’s website just fails with an inaccurate message on Firefox.

i am too tired to do all of this again!

if google gets its way and the entire internet is sealed behind some kinda personally signed public drm key scheme or whatever it ends up being, i think i'll finally just evaporate into nothing and stop using it for literally anything other than absolutely essential functions like banking and refilling medication

im honestly just too tired of trying to keep fighting every asshole quintillionaire company hell bent on undermining the mind bogglingly cool general purpose everything-machine i paid a couple thousand bucks for, so they can buy another yacht or idk whatever people with that much money do when they get slightly more of it

im just so tiiiiiiired of all of this

you know what? fuck it. i'm using masonry on my site

It's so funny cause from 2014-2020 the big tech jobs in the Greater New Orleans Area were web app development to "modernize" oil and gas infrastructure. Said infrastructure consisted of "ancient" web apps written in flash that could only be used on Windows XP and 98 systems. I'm wondering if we are just on a 20 year cycle and in 10 years we will have to go back and modernize the chrome optimized WebApps.

Oh god we're really about to reenter the bad old days of some folk "But since most people use Internet Explorer the standard should be what works in Internet Explorer and everything else should be compatible with that rather than what is actually the HTML standards" but with Chrome rather than IE now, aren't we?

I swear he seemed absolutely incapable of understanding that there were HTML standards that IE had deviated from in some ways (and Netscape had deviated from in others) in a weird arms race of compatibility hell, and that it wasn't just a 'more used = standard' situation but 'there are standards that an independent organization has set'.

That's what I think Multi-Account Containers should have been but they're an extension and they're not flashy. When I describe them to non-tech people, they're like "why do I care?" which is sort of true but also painful to hear lol.

tree-style tabs is the killer feature that keeps me on firefox, but it's definitely a power user thing (and the ux isn't great, because the tab bar at the top of the window stays there)

It'll probably be adblockers, if google gets their way.

I've heard another (Maybe worse???) version of this with people talking about how they need giant trucks to see over all the other giant trucks. No you don't! You need to start driving a honda fit you found in a junkyard and keying all the giant trucks! Draw dicks on the trucks with your keys until people stop buying them for fear of the dicks! It's the only way!

I work for Large Company to Make Website for Selling Product and I've been pushing super hard for my team to test in Firefox.

It does not make me feel great that I've caught more than a few busted experiences going out the door because I'm the Firefox Guy. This is a multinational corporation! Jesus Fucking Christ!

for me it's that you can install uBlock into the android version of Firefox, that is HUGE, there is NOTHING that can make me touch the internet with anything else if it can't do that.